GRAND JUNCTION -- Two nurses each from from SCL Health's St. Mary-Corwin Hospital and the VA's Grand Junction Veterans Health System joined a nursing professor from Colorado Northwestern Community College and the retired director of the Summit County Health and Human Services Department in being named March 4 as Colorado Nightingale Luminaries.

The Colorado Nurses Foundation administers the Colorado Nightingale Luminary Awards and convenes the statewide committee that selects 12 recipients of the Colorado Nightingale Award. The Western Colorado Nightingale Committee solicits nominations regionally and each year designates up to six Luminaries locally.